Eat & Drink Best fries NYC: All the fries you have to try By Melissa Kravitz Posted on May 1, 2015 Sign up for our amNewYork email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! While all fries are good, New York City has its fair share of what we’ll call … the best fries around. Here are the crispiest, curliest, greasiest and sweetest (yep!) french fries in the city.